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fi yuo cna raed tihs, yuo hvae a sgtrane mnid too
Cna yuo raed tihs? Olny 55 plepoe out of 100 can.
i cdnuolt blveiee taht I cluod aulaclty uesdnatnrd waht I was rdanieg. The phaonmneal pweor of the hmuan mnid, aoccdrnig to a rscheearch at Cmabrigde Uinervtisy, it dseno't mtaetr in waht oerdr the ltteres in a wrod are, the olny iproamtnt tihng is taht the frsit and lsat ltteer be in the rghit pclae. The rset can be a taotl mses and you can sitll raed it whotuit a pboerlm. Tihs is bcuseae the huamn mnid deos not raed ervey lteter by istlef, but the wrod as a wlohe. Azanmig huh? yaeh and I awlyas tghuhot slpeling was ipmorantt! if you can raed tihs forwrad it

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Good news, for humans sake.

It recently dawned on me that the news we read paints a negative view of the world. I wonder what the psychological effect is of the constant bombardment of negative news: murder, war, shootings, corruption, atrocities, et cetera.

It seems instinctively obvious that we ought to focus our attention on the worst problems. The problem with merely focusing our attention on problems is we don't get the whole picture, so to speak. We don't get the good that people are doing around world. We don't hear about the good African politicians who are not corrupt. We don't hear the good things that the US government does around the world. We don't hear about the peace movement in Israel. We don't hear about the moderate Muslims. We don't hear about the Japanese citizens who sympathize with the Chinese and Koreans over war time atrocities.

With such a negative portrayal of reality perhaps one psychological effect is the general acceptance of a realist view of human nature. A view that focuses on self-interest, competition, and survival: kill or be killed.